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SalaryWe’ve been keeping Britain warm for over 200 years. Today we power 1 in 3 homes in the UK – but supplying energy is just part of what we do.
We’re on a mission to make the UK’s homes greener and more energy efficient. With clever tech like Hive thermostats, heat pumps, solar panels and EV chargers, we’re making it cheaper and easier to reduce your home’s carbon-footprint and with our new PeakSave programme, we’re actively rewarding better energy use too.
Our nationwide team of 6,500 engineers are energy efficiency experts – offering practical ways to make homes more sustainable.
That’s why we need a brilliant Strategic Planning Analystto help us get to where we’re going. This is a great entry level role to build experience and take responsibility for the production, development and communication of resource plans/models and processes to forecast staffing levels, service levels and other key performance indicators.
Location: With our FlexFirst working arrangements we empower our colleagues to work in a way that best suits them – meaning location doesn’t need to be a barrier. This role can be mostly based at home with travel required on an ad hoc basis.
We have tailored our well-being & benefits package around our employees as follows:
- Competitive salary and bonus potential
- Employee Energy Allowance at 15% of the government price cap
- Pension scheme
- Company Funded Healthcare Plan
- 25 days holiday allowance, plus public holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 additional days
- Excellent range of flexible benefits, including technology vouchers, electric car lease scheme & travel insurance
What will you do?
- Deliver plan outputs in a user-friendly format to communicate complex and large data at a suitable level for varying stakeholders.
- Lead discussions with key stakeholders to ensure inputs into planning models are up to date and reflect latest operational requirements.
- Review performance against plan and engage with operational stakeholders providing analysis and recommendations.
- Provide a link between Forecasting & Long Term (Demand) teams and translate the plan outputs to our wider planning team.
- Take responsibility for pre and post event analysis to enable ad-hoc scenario modelling that influences future resource decision making.
- Produce and regularly refresh forecasting models enabling both tactical and strategic decisions to be made.
- Provide insight and meaningful analysis to support the business in understanding its strategic direction and how this influences future resourcing models.
Who are we looking for?
- A strong analytical background and excellent Microsoft Office skills.
- Good understanding of resource planning principles and practices is desirable.
- Experience of effective communication across a wide group of stakeholders.
- Ability to produce clear, concise documents and analysis to facilitate comprehension and clear decision making.
We are proud to be recognised as a disability-confident employer. Our customers come from a variety of different backgrounds, and so do we. We hire great people from all walks of life, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. We will continue championing inclusivity while investing in our local communities to create a better, more sustainable world for everyone. We are incredibly proud to have been recognised by The Times for being one of the Top 50 Employers for Women.
Our people are the beating heart of our business. We are incredibly proud of our commitment to being FlexFirst. From childcare to furry friends, we listened to our people and understood that they work best when they are comfortable and have a flexible working model that suits their individual needs. We embrace the opportunity to give our colleagues a choice to work from anywhere whilst still ensuring they can connect and engage with their teams through office days, employee networks and virtual events.
We are committed to creating a cleaner and greener future. And we’re making big changes to help us get there. That means cutting customers' emissions and our own to reach net zero. And because our people are the beating heart of our business, we will continue to champion inclusivity, develop future skills and invest in our local communities to create a better world for everyone. As part of our reforestation project with WeForest, for every new employee that joins our family, we plant trees in underprivileged areas in Tanzania to offer farming and wildlife economy opportunities for locals.
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At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!
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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.
